Dias, Susana de SousaAlmeida, Helena Maria Silva de2020-03-032020-03-032020-01-10http://hdl.handle.net/10451/42125The research work presented here constitutes both a theoretical reflection and a visual essay about the configuration that “utopia” takes on today. This exploration is based on Franco “Bifo” Berardi's thinking, especially on the way this author mobilizes and combines notions of visibility and invisibility to think about that concept in the present moment. At first, nuclear ideas about the concept of utopia are clarified, more precisely in the understanding that the concept was assumed historically in terms of the imaginary, but also in the greater or lesser importance that was attributed to it, as a critical tool to the present, to depart from them to situate our proposal that we call Zomia: a proposal post-utopic. In a second moment we explain the choice of the photographic device as a medium for the realization of the essay and expose the status of the photographic image as document-photography in the postmodern period strongly marked by the digital mechanisms and the equation of the notions of truth and reality. Next, it is argued that, on the one hand, the regime of photography-expression and the concept of image-fiction, as discussed respectively by Rouillé and Dubois, and on the other, the dimensions of visibility and invisibility considered, conceived in the regime of photography-expression, are the appropriate bases for developing the visual essay on utopia, inspired by the thought of "Bifo". This consists in the creation of a book of images that propose to make visible a utopia, but which simultaneously shows its invisibility, conferring an experience between the visible and the invisible to the proposal of perception of a contemporary utopia. In this way it is suggested, and according to Bifo's thought, that utopia is inscribed in the present, in the form of possibility, and that its vision is urgent, because only through it will it be possible to escape to the dominant dystopian perception, but at the same time is invisible, due to the hegemonic perception that prevents us from contemplating and perceiving different horizons.porScott, James C., 1936-UtopiaPós-modernidadeFotografiaExpressãoImagemFicçãoInvisívelVisivelZomia (Maciço do Sudeste Asiático)master thesis202444937